The National Alliance for Hospice Access is the main organizing group for repealing/reforming the Hospice Cap. The main public relations approach is to use the Cap as a foil, that is preventing hospices from caring for patients. On Twitter, a few accounts have been set up just for this PR reason to reiterate that the Hospice Cap is bankrupting 'hospice' as a whole and as individual hospices. So there is a real push to educate the public about the hospice cap.

The main debate between hospices seems to be between hospices who hit the cap vs. hospices who do not hit the cap. This has the potential to really set hospice agencies against each other regionally and nationally. I do not think the NHPCO or AAHPM or HPNA have weighed in on this issue yet.

What do you know/think about the hospice cap? Is this a problem for a few hospices or the field as a greater whole?

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